The New West By mmcfaul15 Jan 1, 1859 Pike's Peak Jan 1, 1862 Homestead Act Jan 1, 1864 Chivington Massacre Jan 1, 1873 Interstate commerce Act Jan 1, 1874 Barbed Wire Invented Jan 1, 1876 Little Big Horn Jan 1, 1877 Compromise of 1877 Jan 1, 1881 "A Century of Dishonor" by Helen Hunt Jackson published Jan 1, 1881 James Garfield Assassinated Jan 1, 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act Jan 1, 1887 Dawes Severalty Act Jan 1, 1890 Wounded Kneee Jan 1, 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act Jan 1, 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson